Abstract Over the past 30 years, term “criticality” has become increasingly common in studies of educational and applied linguistics. Derived originally from work Frankfurt School widened by linguistic turn writing Habermas, first sub-field was Critical Discourse Analysis, proposed British scholars. In 1990, Alastair Pennycook called for critical linguistics, 2021 traced its expansion over thir...

There are such great names in language studies as Noam Chomsky, Lev S. Vygotsky, Howard Gardener and Michael Halliday who are widely accredited with having introduced new concepts in linguistics and neighboring disciplines and to whom we remain deeply indebted. In this article which has been written on the occasion of Professor Henry Widdowson's visit in April 2018 to Azarbaijan Shahid Madani U...

In this paper, I attempt to bring together approaches to literacy in theory and in practice, drawing upon various activities I have been involved in over the years–research in Iranian villages during the 1970s; linking research and theory to literacy policy, with particular reference to a contribution to the Unesco Global Monitoring Report in 2004 and involvement in an ongoing adult literacy tr...

The study of Temporal Representation and Reasoning is a core area of research in Linguistics, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. However, very little work has been done in analysing the principles common to these three areas. This paper attempts to investigate major issues and approaches studied in these disciplines. In this attempt, we discovered the Philosophical origin of Allen’s Interv...

I. TODAY, AS MUCH AS EVER, language teaching theorists and course writers offer a rich array of wares. The audio lingual approach, concerned with the formation of habits, particularly grammatical ones, by inductive pattern drills, competes with cognitive approaches, which aim to develop the four language skills through conscious understanding of structure. Far less concerned with grammar are th...

in any discourse domain, certain chunks are particularly frequent and deserve attention by the novice to be initiated and by the expert to maintain a sense of community. to make a relevant contribution to the awareness about applied linguistics texts and discourse, this study attempted to develop lists of lexical chunks frequently used in the abstracts of applied linguistics journals. the abstr...

over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. unfortunately, conference paper titles (cpts) have only recently begun to receive attention. the aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of cpts in applied linguistics. a data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...